Fisher's Lane is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located on East Logan Street in the Wister neighborhood of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

, USA. The district includes 12 contributing buildings and three contributing structures in a residential section of Wister. The houses are representative of the Second Empire and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

-styles of architecture. Specific properties include those at numbers 39, 53, 69, 75 and 81 on the northwest side of East Logan Street and 48, 62, 76, 82 and 90–92 on the southeast side. The artist

Joseph Pennell Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines. A prolific artist, he spent most of his working life in Europe, and developed an interest in landmarks, lan ...

lived at 75 East Logan as a teenager. One of his early works depicting "the ugly house across the street" won a prize in a school art show, presented to him by the state. It was added to the

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in 1980.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Historic districts in Philadelphia Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Second Empire architecture in Pennsylvania Wister, Philadelphia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania